Germany, Republic. A Deutscher Videopreis Lifetime Achievement Award to Actor Christopher Lee

Germany; Brass, weighing 2,105 grams, illustrating the stylized body of a standing nude man, his arm raised and holding a video cassette, the man standing upon a two-tiered circular base, the lower of the two tiers inscribed in recessed black text "DEUTSCHER VIDEOPREIS 2001 / Lifetime Achievement Award / Christopher Lee" on the front and artist marked "GUSS STREHLE" on the reverse, measuring 117 mm at the base x 387 mm in height, light contact, near extremely fine.

Footnote: Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE CStJ (May 27, 1922 - June 7, 2015) was an English character actor, singer, and author. With a career spanning nearly seventy years, Lee was well known for portraying villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-2003) and The Hobbit film trilogy (2012-2014), and Count Dooku in the second and third films of the Star Wars prequel trilogy (2002 & 2005). Lee was knighted for services to drama and charity in 2009, received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2011, and received the BFI Fellowship in 2013. Lee considered his best performance to be that of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the biopic Jinnah (1998), and his best film to be the British horror film The Wicker Man (1973). He frequently appeared opposite Peter Cushing in Hammer Horror films, and late in his career had roles in six Tim Burton films. Lee was awarded the German Video Prize (Deutscher Videopreis) Lifetime Achievement Award in Munich, Germany in 2001. Always noted as an actor for his deep, strong voice, Lee was also known for his singing ability, recording various opera and musical pieces between 1986 and 1998, and the symphonic metal album Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross in 2010, after having worked with several metal bands since 2005. The heavy metal follow-up Charlemagne: The Omens of Death was released on May 27, 2013, Lee's ninety-first birthday. He was honoured with the "Spirit of Metal" award at the 2010 Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards ceremony. Lee died from complications of respiratory problems and heart failure on the morning of June 7, 2015, at the age of 93.